With Tears They Buried You Today Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GBBGAA HIIHJJ KLLKMM NOONPP| With tears they buried you to day | A |
| But well I knew no turf could hold | B |
| Your gladness long beneath the mould | B |
| Or cramp your laughter in the clay | A |
| I smiled while others wept for you | C |
| Because I knew | C |
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| And now you sit with me to night | D |
| Here in our old accustomed place | E |
| Tender and mirthful is your face | E |
| Your eyes with starry joy are bright | D |
| Oh you are merry as a song | F |
| For love is strong | F |
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| They think of you as lying there | G |
| Down in the churchyard grim and old | B |
| They think of you as mute and cold | B |
| A wan white thing that once was fair | G |
| With dim sealed eyes that never may | A |
| Look on the day | A |
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| But love cannot be coffined so | H |
| In clod and darkness it must rise | I |
| And seek its own in radiant guise | I |
| With immortality aglow | H |
| Making of death's triumphant sting | J |
| A little thing | J |
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| Ay we shall laugh at those who deem | K |
| Our hearts are sundered Listen sweet | L |
| The tripping of the wind's swift feet | L |
| Along the by ways of our dream | K |
| And hark the whisper of the rose | M |
| Wilding that blows | M |
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| Oh still you love those simple things | N |
| And still you love them more with me | O |
| The grave has won no victory | O |
| It could not clasp your shining wings | N |
| It could not keep you from my side | P |
| Dear and my bride | P |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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